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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7355094, member: 110504&quot;]@rominumist, Yes, Everything you said is resonantly true.&nbsp; The penny found in Maine was of Olaf Kyrre /&#039;the Quiet,&#039; king of Norway 1065-1080.&nbsp; Right, solidly a couple of generations after the original discovery of Vinland, c. 1000.&nbsp; </p><p>The best treatment I know of is in print; &quot;A Norse Penny from Maine,&quot; by Steven L. Cox, in Fitzhugh and Ward, eds., Vikings: <u>The North Atlantic Saga</u> (Smithsonian, 2000), pp. 206-7; brief mention p. 21).</p><p>One cool thing about Vinland is that the L&#039;Anse aux Meadows settlement in Newfoundland was found primarily using geographic hints in the two extant Icelandic sagas on Greenland and Vinland, neither of which were written down earlier than the 13th century.&nbsp; A pretty resonant vindication of the judicious use of primary sources, specifically involving that interval of oral transmission.&nbsp; (226 ff.)</p><p>...And, [USER=75482]@dltsrq[/USER], I got in trouble in a grade-school history unit on the settlement of Kentucky, by answering in class that the first settlers west of the Appalacians were the Spanish ...or, Oops, the Indians.&nbsp; ...Why we all need history at the academic level.&nbsp; Traditionally, the rest of it runs that heavily to unvarnished propoganda.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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